However, there is nowhere for the Garrison to go, and I order it to manfully stands and awaits its certain end….

Meanwhile, my Belgrade Infantry take a pot shot at the AH Garrison that has strayed too close, and in best Beano and Dandy styleee, Field Marshal Putnik clenches his fist and shouts across the trench line "Grrr, take that you rotter".

After a couple of hair raising turns around Lemberg ( in which Warspite blew two of my Garrisons to pieces, and cut off Lemberg from the rest of the Empire ), I manage to stabilize the front with the arrival of much needed German reinforcements. Phew!!

The corpse-like Ottaman Empire joins the Central Powers.

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Our lives may be more boring than those who lived in apocalyptic times, but being bored is greatly preferable to being prematurely dead because of some ideological fantasy.- Michael Burleigh

Warspite, I think you're too quick to give up entrenched positions in the West. For example, in post no 16, I can understand abandoning the hexes nearest Verdun, but why fall back from the three hexes close to the Swiss border?

Warspite, I think you're too quick to give up entrenched positions in the West. For example, in post no 16, I can understand abandoning the hexes nearest Verdun, but why fall back from the three hexes close to the Swiss border?

He he he. Warspite is reduced to living on his nerves, wearing a dishevelled WWI British Army uniform, swigging from a half empty whiskey bottle, waving his revolver in the air and shouting ' Hold them at all costs boys!!'

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Our lives may be more boring than those who lived in apocalyptic times, but being bored is greatly preferable to being prematurely dead because of some ideological fantasy.- Michael Burleigh

Warspite, I think you're too quick to give up entrenched positions in the West. For example, in post no 16, I can understand abandoning the hexes nearest Verdun, but why fall back from the three hexes close to the Swiss border?

warspite1

Listen Myrddraal I've told my French commanders that, but will they listen?

Warspite, I think you're too quick to give up entrenched positions in the West. For example, in post no 16, I can understand abandoning the hexes nearest Verdun, but why fall back from the three hexes close to the Swiss border?

He he he. Warspite is reduced to living on his nerves, wearing a dishevelled WWI British Army uniform, swigging from a half empty whiskey bottle, waving his revolver in the air and shouting ' Hold them at all costs boys!!'

warspite1

I thought, having beaten the AI easily at the first time of asking, I was quite good at this game - that was before I lost about 5 in a row (1x CP and 4 x Entente)...and counting

Now Empire has me on the rack too. I can understand now why my wife says this to me all the time:

In the South, huge swirling battles ensue between the combatatants, and warspite nearly takes down another Korps ( Garrison unit ). Both Armies are like two punch drunk boxers, unsure where the next blow will fall.

Very exciting game, and my opponent serves up a surprise every turn, unnerving Central Powers High Command.

I forgot to mention that Warspite landed in Calais ( that I foolishly left undefended ) around turn 10 with a British Inf unit and scared the bejesus out of me!!

The German High Command had to immediately remove themselves to the corner shop and buy a ( very ) small bottle of Jagermeister, and take a few snorters to quell the rising panic!!

Luckily I had enough spare troops at hand to almost destroy the British unit ( reduced to a yellow 1 Strength ), before they re-embarked and disappeared over the horizon.

The down side of all of this is that this diversion stopped the advance on Paris. Clever Warspite....curse him!!!!

Now I join Moltke in the Great Hall of the Prevaricators.

But I can't find the screenshots, so you'll all have to take my word for it!

warspite1

Yes, I had nothing better to do, so I thought I would get the British Army to practice what it would be like evacuating troops from a French port while surrounded by the dastardly boche...you never know that kind of knowledge may come in handy in... oh, i don't know, circa 25 years time

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England expects that every man will do his duty - Horatio Nelson 1805.